Child Benefit Changes
There are now new arrangments in place regarding the payment of Child Benefit to Foster Carers. The Irish Foster Care Association would like to draw your attention to the following information;
following a revision of the procedures in the Dept. of Social and Family affairs the position is as follows...
- where a child is placed in voluntary care and the mother has not abandoned or deserted the child and is contributing to the child's support, Child Benefit may continue to be paid to the mother for the first 6 months that the child is in foster care and transferred to the foster mother from the 7th month.
- where a child is placed in voluntary care and the birth mother is not contributing to the child's support, Child Benefit is paid to the foster mother from the month after the child was placed with them.
- where a child is placed in care subject to a court order, Child Benefit is paid to the foster mother from the month after the child was placed with them.